{"id":462759,"date":"2021-04-30T13:05:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T17:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=462759"},"modified":"2021-04-30T13:05:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T17:05:40","slug":"hacker-erases-unc-conservative-student-publications-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hacker-erases-unc-conservative-student-publications-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacker Erases UNC Conservative Student Publication\u2019s Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhacker-erases-unc-conservative-student-publications-website%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=462759&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"30.506666666667\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/\">Campus<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Publication staff have been threatened, intimidated<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"588\" height=\"474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-4230.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-4229.jpeg 588w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/jqJryBPV-300x242.jpeg 300w\" data-sizes=\"auto\"  style=\"display:none\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tThe vandalized Carolina Review website (Bryson Piscitelli)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/alex-nester\/\" title=\"Posts by Alex Nester\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Alex Nester<\/a> \u2022 April 30, 2021 1:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"130.97276264591\">\n<p>A hacker breached the website of a conservative student publication at the University of North Carolina, erasing hundreds of articles and leaving a threatening message for the paper\u2019s staff.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Carolina Review<\/em>\u2019s website was left largely blank Wednesday night around 10:00 PM, save for a note the hacker left on the masthead that called editor-in-chief Bryson Piscitelli a &#8220;nazi scum fuck off.&#8221; The hack came just hours after one of the <em>Review\u2019s<\/em> campus distribution boxes\u2014installed last Sunday\u2014was vandalized with the word &#8220;racist&#8221; in black Sharpie.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1470540 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-4231.jpeg\" alt width=\"767\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/U-kbgxRi-1-767x1024.jpg 767w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/U-kbgxRi-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/U-kbgxRi-1-768x1025.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/U-kbgxRi-1-736x983.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/U-kbgxRi-1-368x491.jpg 368w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/U-kbgxRi-1-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/U-kbgxRi-1.jpg 898w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Piscitelli, a sophomore, told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> that the school\u2019s liberal political culture has made his publication a target, leading him to believe a student is responsible for the hack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sad truth is, this sort of thing is really not surprising to us,&#8221; Piscitelli said. &#8220;We all in the back of our minds have always expected this\u2014it&#8217;s been a fear certainly, but a thing we&#8217;ve had to stoically embrace as people who are not willing to keep in ideological step with the leftwing orthodoxy of the university\u2019s student body.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Expressing conservative views on college campuses can in many cases leave students vulnerable to physical attacks and intimidation from their liberal peers. A conservative at Berkeley was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=11956\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">punched<\/a> in 2019 while recruiting students to join the Leadership Institute, a conservative activist group, and student government leaders have been pressured to resign for holding Christian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=11505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">beliefs<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/tufts-student-government-attacks-jewish-member-for-defending-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defending<\/a> Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives at UNC have also faced harassment for their beliefs. One UNC student assaulted a pro-life advocate at the university in 2019. Liberal students lambasted Fox News host Tucker Carlson when he spoke at UNC in 2018, calling him a neo-Nazi and white supremacist.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1993, the <em>Carolina Review<\/em> is an independent student publication that expresses the university\u2019s &#8220;conservative and libertarian voice.&#8221; <em>Carolina Review<\/em> managing editor Elliot Gualano said he often fears for the safety of his staff writers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am less concerned for myself but more concerned about the people that work for us, our staff writers that make up the most of the publication. They have been attacked and ostracized by their peers for joining the journal,&#8221; Gualano told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;I fear for their personal safety sometimes, for the horrible backlash these individuals get just for being a staff writer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The hacker is not the only force attempting to silence <em>Carolina Review<\/em> writers. Two female students were bullied out of working for the paper last semester, Piscitelli told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>. One former staff writer&#8217;s roommates repeatedly ignored her and excluded her from group outings. Another student\u2019s sorority chastised her for publishing an article in the <em>Review<\/em> and intimidated her into never again submitting a piece for publication.<\/p>\n<p>The publication&#8217;s website was rebooted as of Friday morning, as Piscitelli and his team recovered some archived work. He is not yet sure of the full extent of the hacker\u2019s damage.<\/p>\n<p>While PDF copies of the magazine are stored and saved, 15 years of articles published online-only could be lost forever\u2014including one article that uncovered UNC Asian and Middle Eastern studies professor Dwyane Dixon had taken part in the infamous 2017 &#8220;Unite the Right&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesgmartin.center\/2019\/07\/unc-chapel-hill-a-sanctuary-campus-for-terroristic-radicals-on-the-taxpayers-dime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rally<\/a> in Charlottesville as a member of the leftist &#8220;Redneck Radicals&#8221; group, an Antifa-style militant organization.<\/p>\n<p>Campus police have assigned an investigator to the case. A spokesman for the University of North Carolina told the\u00a0<em>Free Beacon <\/em>that UNC &#8220;condemns vandalism and rhetoric that discourages students from speaking freely on campus,&#8221; and that the school &#8220;strive[s] to foster an environment\u202fwhere everyone, regardless of identity, background, or perspective, can enjoy their right to free expression and their sense of safety and belonging.&#8221; The school declined to comment on the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2020\/02\/evidence-conservative-students-really-do-self-censor\/606559\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> conducted by three UNC professors in 2019 found nearly 25 percent of the school\u2019s student body approve of suppressing viewpoints they view as incorrect, and defamatory comments directed toward conservatives are &#8220;common.&#8221; About 68 percent of conservative undergraduates at UNC reported they self-censor out of fear there could be consequences for expressing their views.<\/p>\n<p>While Piscitelli said most of the political pressure he\u2019s faced comes from his peers, Gualano told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> that professors have also created &#8220;an environment where [his] viewpoints will not be welcomed.&#8221; A religion professor told him at the beginning of his first class this semester that he was having a great day because President Joe Biden was being sworn into office.<\/p>\n<p>Another liberal professor will soon come onboard. The University of North Carolina <a href=\"https:\/\/campusreform.org\/article?id=17399\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> this week that the <em>New York Times<\/em> 1619 Project architect Nikole Hannah-Jones will join the school\u2019s journalism and media program in July. Hannah-Jones\u2019s project has been criticized by many historians and other scholars for its inaccurate claims about the American founding, in which she argued the American Revolution was fought to preserve slavery.<\/p>\n<p>Gualano said the university&#8217;s campus climate is &#8220;not conducive&#8221; to what college life should be like.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my opinion, college should be a place with open and free exchange of ideas,&#8221; Gualano said. &#8220;But people here are dissuaded from holding opposing viewpoints.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus Publication staff have been threatened, intimidated  The vandalized Carolina Review website (Bryson Piscitelli)  Alex Nester \u2022 April 30, 2021 1:00 pm A &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277087,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-4230.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Hacker Erases UNC Conservative Student Publication\u2019s Website","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-4230.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Hacker Erases UNC Conservative Student Publication\u2019s Website","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}